COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONSt. Patís Stout is a traditional Dry Irish Stout ó itís made from a blend of 5 malts, with the addition of flaked and roasted barley. It is lightly hopped with Styrian Goldings. At the end of the day, St. Patís is a smooth, coffee-like stout with a complex malty flavor.

Growler pours with a nice and dark body that supports a thin tan head. The aroma offers up earthy dark roasted malts, burnt malts and a bit of highly roasted coffee. The taste has dark roasted malts to mildly burnt malts with a fairly thin body. This delivers nice flavors for being such a small beer.

A steady pour into my New Belgium Globe glass produces an almost three finger thick, nicely brown tinged head. The beer is a concentrated black color that shows a touch of brown around the edges when held up to the light, but is opaque otherwise. The beer smells of toasted whole grain, wholesome cocoa, roasted crushed crackers, diluted roasted coffee, hints of rounded malt sweetness, but really this is quite dry smelling.

Dry, roasted, bitter, lingering roasted crackers, and light bodied, but it has quite a bit of body when compared to the current incarnation that is Guinness draft. The roast character contributes a lightly acidic bite to the finish that melds with the roasted bitterness from the dark malt. I really like the texture of this beer, it drinks a lot heftier than it actually is; it has a nice texture on the palate, yet still remains eminently quaffable. Rounded chocolate notes, a hint of dark malt sweetness, that brings out a bit more of the chocolate notes.

Quite nice, one of the better examples of the style; likely because it has more body and chewiness to it than one would usually find in a dry Irish Stout. This has a really bright roasted character to it, and, more importantly, enough chewy malt to balance this out quite nicely. In the end this is just too nice, it hits the spot perfectly when you want a chewy, tasty, eminently quaffable brew that you can drink a few of in a sitting.

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